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Article: Menstruation's Link to Migraine Often Exaggerated.
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- May 15, 2001
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BAL HARBOUR, FLA. -- Women who get migraines tend to overestimate the association between their headaches and menstruation, Dr. Elizabeth W. Loder said at the annual meeting of the American Headache Society.
Even when there is a link between menstruation and migraines, the headaches are neither more severe nor more difficult to treat than migraines occurring at other times of the month, contrary to popular belief. Don't jump to the use of estrogen or other hormonal manipulation to treat menstrual migraine, because standard therapies usually work just fine, said Dr. Loder, director of the headache management program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston.
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